By Amina Matavia Impact Story # 2: Catherine Dalon, Sabokahan Unity of Lumad Women Bright eyes and big smiles Kat Dalon is a member of Sabokahan – Unity of Lumad Women, a community partner of the Women’s Studies and Resource Center – Southern...
By Amina Matavia Impact Story #1: Cleisteil Cimafranca, WRCV Cleisteil Cimafranca, 24 years old, is a young woman development worker from the urban poor communities of Cebu. She is currently working as Education & Training Officer for Women’s Resource Center-Visayas (WRCV), a Cebu-based...
The Resilient Platform Work Philippines team presented its report on July 8, 2026 at De La Salle University and raised policy concerns and recommendations emerging from fieldwork across the country on the intersections of platform work, climate change and technological development. The report...
By Ben Galil Te and Gab Mesina This year’s SB64 opens amidst the backdrop of both conflict and crisis, from the unprecedented heatwaves and the projected highly potent and rapidly intensifying El Niño. Yet there is one particular crisis that cast an ominous...
By Gab Mesina and Ben Galil Te The 64th sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SB64) in Bonn, Germany, served as a vital mid-year platform for steering global climate action. This year’s June climate meetings occur in the backdrop of war in the...
By Denmar Djasthine Garcia and Bianca Alenna Serrano On June 22-23, 2026, the Klima Center of Manila Observatory, together with the Fastenaktion Philippine Country Program, held “Climate Justice amid the Energy Crisis and the Search for Accountability,” a two-day Capacity Building Workshop at...
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This report examines the multifaceted experiences of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and Indigenous Cultural Communities (ICCs) in the Philippines—particularly the Igorot of the Cordillera and the Lumad of Mindanao—as environmental defenders facing violent state repression. It foregrounds the disproportionate vulnerability of Indigenous Peoples (IPs)...
By Zenn Marie Cainglet, Melliza T. Cruz, Ophel Eliza Rabaja, Maria Obiminda Cambaliza, James Bernard Simpas, Fr. Jose Ramon Villarin, SJ, and Fr. Daniel McNamara, SJ Lighting fireworks is one of the festive Filipino traditions in welcoming the New Year. As the clock...
The Manila Observatory, through the Klima Center, has submitted a paper titled “Recommendations for the Just Transition Mechanism” in response to the UNFCCC’s call for submissions from admitted NGOs for views on the process for operationalization of a just transition mechanism. As decided...
Jakarta City, 28 February 2026 – ASEAN Member States (AMS), representatives from the ASEAN Secretariat and the UK Mission to ASEAN participated in a three-day regional dialogue on advancing nature-based solutions (NbS) for climate action. As an extremely biodiverse region, NbS has quickly...
by Christine R. Mapa The Manila Observatory continued its 160th celebration with the third installment of the AmBag Anniversary Lecture Series on June 20, 2025. The talk featured Dr. Rene Claveria of the Ateneo de Manila University’s Environmental Science Department, who highlighted the...
by Christine R Mapa Building on the success of its inaugural session, the AmBag Anniversary lecture series returned on May 23, 2025, with its second installment: ‘Dugsong: Mga Tinipong Kwento ng Klima mula sa Oscar M Lopez (OML) Center’, presented by Ms. Kato...
by Mariane Desiree Avendaño, Zenn Marie Cainglet, Ophel Eliza Rabaja, Paola Banaga, Melliza Templonuevo Cruz, James B. Simpas, Maria Obiminda Cambaliza, Fr. Jose Ramon Villarin, SJ, and Fr. Daniel McNamara, SJ New Year’s Day is a global celebration marking the passage of time...
The Manila Observatory participated in the ASIA-AQ 2025 Science Team Meeting, held at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia, from January 20 to 24, 2025. The meeting was attended by scientists and officials who discussed initial findings from the recent ASIA-AQ mission...
The Manila Observatory’s research initiative, Creating Markers for Detecting Non-Economic Loss and Damage (NELD) in Coastal Communities in the Philippines (La Union), has been featured as a contributing case study in a technical paper onNon-Economic Losses (NELs). This paper was developed by the...
by Ben Te and Jayvy R. Gamboa How has the International Loss and Damage Architecture developed over the past year?What can we learn from communities on the ground?Are we doing enough in the fight against climate change? These were the questions that we...
The Manila Observatory (MO) participated at the 16th International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (iCACGP) Symposium and 18th International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Science Conference (iCACGP-IGAC Conference 2024) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on September 9-13, 2024. Scientist from the Manila Observatory,...
The Manila Observatory participated during the AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) Science and Application Exchange, held from September 17 to 19, 2024, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States. AERONET, established by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and international collaborators, is...
A special session for CARE for SEA Megacities and CORDEX-SEA was held from 26-28 November 2024, as part of the 4th International Vietnam Conference on Earth and Environmental Sciences (iVCEES-2024) in Quy Nhon, Vietnam. The conference was hosted by Rencontres du Vietnam, International...